Home and Away tops Thursday entertainment but Taskmaster attracts key demos
Home and Away topped entertainment on Thursday, however, it was Ten’s Taskmaster that won two key advertising demos.
L-R: Taskmaster’s Tom Gleeson and Tom Cashman
The drama series on Seven aired to 424,000 metro viewers, followed by RBT on Nine with 412,000.
The Chase Australian pulled in 395,000 metro viewers for Seven, while a late broadcast of Home and Away attracted 384,000 metro audience.
Paramedics on Nine brought in 328,000 metro viewers, followed by the network’s Hot Seat with 309,000.
Ten’s Taskmaster Australia aired to 305,000 metro viewers in its second week. As mentioned, the show topped two advertising demos of 16-39s and 18-49s, but Nine News at 6:30 won the 25-54s.
The #1 program on Thursday night was Seven News at 6:30 with 714,000 metro viewers, followed by Seven News with 705,000, Nine News at 6:30 with 664,000 and Nine News with 658,000.
Seven Network edged Nine off the overall network crown with a 28% share, while the latter had 27.4%. ABC scored an 18.1% share and Ten brought in 16.7%.
The top-rated primary channel was Nine with a 20.5% share, but the top-rated multichannel was 7Two with 3.6%.
In the latest Daily Consolidated 7 Total TV Report for 2 February, Married at First Sight on Nine last Thursday was the #1 program nationally with 1.729 million Total TV viewers, including 571,000 on BVOD and the biggest uplift of 80%.
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Darcy Song was a reporter at Mumbrella, covering media owners, adtech and social platforms. She left in October 2023.
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